Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y, and thespandrils are filled with a rough mosaic of basalt and redbrick in various patterns. Above, is a cornice delicatelycarved with scrolls, heads, and figures of men and animals,that in the older walks being simpler than the others.The keystones of the outer order of the arch are orna-mented with little figures, among which is a mermaid,holding her tail in her hand. The cloister is coveredwith plain cross-groining. The capitals are rude and distant copies of RomanCorinthian, and in the earlier part have the leaves raffledin the Roman fashion with distinct pipings. In thedecoration by polychrome masonry however one maysuspect a trace of Byzantine influence, and both here andin the church are capitals with a curious resemblance tosome we have described at Ravenna and Salonica. Acapital in the north transept (Fig. 107) follows, though at animmense distance, the construction of one at S. Demetriusin Salonica (Plate VIII) with the selfsame convex band 140 FRANCE—AUVERGNE (ch. xxiii
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Fig. 108. Plate CXXI

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